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Senior U.S. Diplomat Criticizes China’s Role in Sri Lankan Debt Restructuring

by Cobus van Staden
Image via WION News.

Yet another U.S. government official has added to the war of words between Washington and Beijing on debt restructuring.

Ramin Toloui, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the US Department of State, was asked about China’s role in Sri Lanka’s debt crisis during an interview on the nationalist Indian news channel, WION:

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